The Rock Hill Herald on Feb. 3, 1887 reported – “An accident on the Cheraw and Chester RR of last Wednesday. A freight train ran of the track just before the trestle at Cane Creek. Six cars fell and the middle of the trestle gave way. Green Lilly a colored brakeman and Dave Green also a colored brakeman was injured. The engine of the train was badly damaged by didn’t fall from the trestle.”
City Directories and History: A concrete bridge across Cane Creek built by the WPA circa 1936.
Cane Creek, named for the exceedingly high reeds that grew along its banks, has almost as many spellings — Kane, Cain, Kain, Khane — as it has tributaries before entering the Catawba River. Upper Camp Creek left no clue as to who might have camped along its banks. Was it Indians? Was it traders? Was it settlers? Or, was it the troops of General Cornwallis who are known to have camped in the vicinity during the Revolutionary War? The name Gills Creek and its tributary Hannahs Creek can be traced to the original grantee, Thomas Gill and his wife Hannah. Big game disappeared with the coming of the settlers, but Bear Creek records evidence of one animal’s habitat, while Turkey Quarter Creek, which runs into Bear, indicates that smaller game remained longer, even to this day. Rum Creek, shown as Escape Creek on Thomas Simpson’s plat dated 1753, has the “Cataba” (Indian) Path crossing as it empties into Cane.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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